Bollywood's 10 WORST Tragic Romances

Bollywood's 10 WORST Tragic Romances

When we make a bad romance, we make it so bad the trauma lasts us a fair while. If we wept, it wasn’t for the intended reasons.

Featuring one of last Friday’s releases, here’s a list of very weak tragedies that left us cold, bored, exhausted.

Issaq

One of the most amateurish versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Manish Tiwary’s Issaq never once lets us feel for the characters -- who are, in turn, each acting like they belong in different films.

The immortal text of the Bard is squandered most by hero Prateik Babbar, who provides a sickeningly bad performance.

Ishaqzaade

Habib Faisal’s second film, again, is an impressively crafted film with good lines and fine performances from the leads -- it’s just that the director, who also wrote the film, messed up big-time with this regressive, maliciously sexist take on Romeo And Juliet.

Kites

Apparently, the producers of this multi-crore superflop -- which came in two flavours, Hindi and English, the former directed by Anurag Basu, the latter re-cut by Brett Ratner -- were upset that newspaper reports played spoiler and revealed the film’s sad ending before it had released.

Well, I’d say the true tragedy was in this film being made, in the first place.

Saawariya

Sanjay Leela Bhansali took a wonderful, achingly tragic Fyodor Dostoevsky short story and immersed in a big-budget, starkid-filled pile of ink. The result -- instead of a symphony in cobalt -- was more just blue bilge.